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Facing Problems With IOS 11? Here is How to Fix Them

Nov 24, 2017

The biggest iOS upgrading of this season have finally arrived. At present, if you wish to explore the newest iOS 11 features, you can download it to upgrade your iPhone, iPad and iPod.

In spite of the fact that every new iOS update won't just bring new features to make our life more interesting, but additionally resolves bugs spotted in the previous versions. But, this does not mean iOS 11 is perfect and bugless.

Here we have collected some of the most common issues faced by users along with their solutions. Have a look at them, you may find your issue resolved.

Problem 1: Software update failed

Many users are facing issues in downloading the update iOS 11 or iOS 11.1. Almost everywhere people are facing this issue and each time a message named "Software Update Failed" is displayed on their screens. To solve this issue, you can try:

Solution 1: Check whether your device is compatible with iOS 11 or not. Apple often leaves some devices behind when releasing new updates. As an example, you cannot update your iPhone 5 with iOS 11.

Solution 2: Reset your network settings.

Solution 3: Restart your device and try again. To do so, press and hold the power button and the home buttons together and keep on holding until the Apple logo appears.

Once the downloading for iOS is finished, there will be a step for verifying update. But, sometimes the screen of the device gets stuck on this step and later on says "unable to verify update." Try these solutions to resolve the issue:

Solution 1: Reboot your device.

Solution 2: Ensure your network be connected all the time.

Solution 3: Update iOS 11 with iTunes on the computer.

Problem 3: Battery fast draining

This problem arises every time a new iOS update is launched. Users often complain that the newest iOS consumes power largely and rapidly. iOS 11 also accompanies this problem.

Tip 1: Restart your device

Tip 2: Disable Widgets. To do so, swipe to the right when on the home screen of the device, scroll to the bottom of the widgets and select Edit. To disable, tap the red circle with the white line and then remove.

Tip 3: Enable low power mode on the device. To do so, go to Settings > Battery > Low Power Mode > Toggle it as per your needs.

Some users complain that their iDevices were faced with temperature too high warning - The device needs to cool down before you can use it after updating.

Solution 1: The simplest way is to wait for some time while the device cools down itself. Also, you can restart it or turn it off and try installing the update later on.

Solution 2: Turn off the location service on your device. GPS heats up the iDevices. To turn it off, go to the Settings > Privacy > Location > Off.

Solution 3: Take off the device case and allow it to cool down.

Problem 5: Cellular Data Issues

In case you find that your cellular data is surprisingly slow, or not working on iPhone 8 or iPhone X, after updating to iOS 11, you can try following solutions to resolve the problem:

Step 1: Restart your device.

Step 2: Look for the carrier update. Go to Settings > about.

Step 3: Turn off cellular data and after a few seconds, toggle it on.

Step 4: Turn on the Airplane mode. Go to Control Center > On the Airplane Mode > Turn it off in about 30 seconds.

Step 5: Reset network settings.

Problem 6: Air Pods won’t connect

Sometimes, Air Pods cannot connect to the iDevices. To resolve this problem, take both Air Pods off > Keep them inside the case > Close the case and wait for 10-15 seconds > Take them out with the case next to the phone.

Problem 7: App store is down

Many users complain that the iDevices cannot connect to the app store, app store down or not working, after updating to iOS 11. Here is how to fix it:

Solution 3: Set Date & Time automatically. Go to Settings > General > Data & Time > Toggle on Set Automatically.

Problem 8: Various iTunes errors

Sometimes, while updating iOS 11 with iTunes an error message is displayed on the screen such as iTunes error 10/15/39/64/4194... To resolve this problem, you can try these steps:

Solution 1: Check USB cable.

Solution 2: Update iTunes to the latest version.

This post does not include all iOS 11 bugs or errors and all these errors above are just iOS 11 problems so far faced by users. So in case your problem is not listed here, do not worry; Apple keeps updating its operating system for such fixes.